Noun confabulation has 2 senses
  1. chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose - an informal conversation
    --1 is a kind of conversation
    --1 has particulars:
     chitchat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin-wag, chin-wagging, causerie
    Derived forms: verb confabulate3, verb confabulate2
  2. confabulation - (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
    --2 is a kind of
    memory
    Derived form: verb confabulate1
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